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From: tonyk@world.std.com (Tony J. Kanawati)
Subject: Re: Prototypical Objects in Scheme
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Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 21:42:31 GMT
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Rainer Blome (rainer@physik3.gwdg.de) wrote:
: ...
: To me, the protoypes-and-messages model seems much better suited to the usual
: programming tasks than the usual classes and generic functions as with
: CLOS and the like (they aren't the same, I know that).

Prototypical objects are more suitable for some tasks, but they don't very
little static information, and their behavior changes dynamically.  This
raises the level of program comprehension complexity to new level, and can
severely complicate debugging and maintenance.

But, I agree, it is fun to program in such a paradigm [excuse the cliche].
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Antoun (Tony) Kanawati
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